Literature
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Stephen & Owen King's 'Sleeping Beauties' lacks page-turning intensity
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - "Sleeping Beauties" (Scribner), by Stephen and Owen King Of all the gifts a father can give his son, near the top must be a co-written novel. After all, slapping the nam...
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Review: Perkins' novel is as eerie as it is delightful
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - "There's Someone Inside Your House" (Dutton Children's Books), by Stephanie Perkins In Stephanie Perkins' latest young adult novel, "There's Someone Inside Your House," ...
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Author events: Stephen King, Owen King talk 'Sleeping Beauties' at NCC in NapervilleSep 23, 2017 7:27 am - • Alan Gratz discusses and signs copies of his new novel for young people, "Ban This Book," at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at The Book Stall, 811 Elm St., Winnetka. Reco...
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CLC student literary magazine wins first place awardSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - The 2017 edition of Prairie Voices, the College of Lake County's literary arts magazine, has won first place in the Community College Humanities Association Annual Liter...
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Waubonsee faculty member published in online literary journalSep 20, 2017 11:00 pm - Dan Portincaso, associate professor of English at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, had a work of fiction published in F(r)iction, an online literary journal. ...
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Review: 'The Cuban Affair' feels authentic and real
Sep 19, 2017 7:00 am - "The Cuban Affair: a Novel" (Simon & Schuster), by Nelson DeMille A charter boat captain in Key West, Florida, gets an offer he can't refuse in Nelson DeMille's latest n...
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Review: Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with 'The Scarred Woman'
Sep 18, 2017 7:00 am - "The Scarred Woman" (Dutton), by Jussi Adler-Olsen Who is "The Scarred Woman"? That's a question you'll ask yourself as you read Jussi Adler-Olsen's latest mystery. Depa...
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Alice McDermott captures bygone era of Brooklyn
Sep 18, 2017 7:00 am - "The Ninth Hour" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Alice McDermott Alice McDermott's stunning new novel, "The Ninth Hour," does for contemporary literature what "Call the ...
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Review: 'Alone' is perfect complement to filmdom's 'Dunkirk'
Sep 18, 2017 7:00 am - "Alone" (Liveright Publishing Co.), by Michael Korda Interest in the 1940 cross-channel evacuation of British soldiers amid the French collapse in World War II has sprun...
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You'll laugh and cry through 'Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies'
Sep 18, 2017 7:00 am - "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies" (Atria Books), by Michael Ausiello Michael Ausiello is a respected television journalist whose wit and candor are well-received by those w...